TMI Coatings Blog

A southern Minnesota manufacturing facility requested that TMI Coatings recommend a flooring system for their injection molding area floor.  This company manufactures bronze outdoor signs and letters.  The floor is 7,000 sq. ft. and subject to foot traffic.  Approximately 900 sq. ft. has forklifts and pallet jacks running across it on a regular basis.  TMI [...]

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TMI Coatings applied quartz flooring to a walkway and pool hallway for slip resistance for safety at a Wisconsin YMCA. The previous pool walkway would become slippery when wet. The owner had previously applied aluminum oxide into the floor coating but it was too coarse and hurt peoples feet as they walked on it. By [...]

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TMI Coatings is an exclusive applicator of SafeLane™ traffic deck coating. TMI has applied SafeLane at various milling facilities throughout Minnesota and North Dakota. The reason for coating pedestrian walkways at the various milling facilities was to reduce slips and falls during snowfalls in the winter. SafeLane™ is a uniquely designed patented material that releases [...]

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A school in central Wisconsin had peeling paint on their gym locker room floors. They painted their locker room floors every other year. The school administrative staff wanted a more permanent solution. TMI Coatings mechanically abraded the floor to remove all the flaking paint exposing bare concrete. TMI then applied our low odor CHEM-RESIST flooring [...]

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TMI Coatings concrete coating division removed old floor paint from 6,000 sq. ft. and installed a clear epoxy sealer/dustproofer. All areas were shot blasted to remove the old paint and to prepare for the new coating adhesion. The crews took care to hand grind all the edges near walls where the shot blaster couldn’t reach. [...]

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An animal feed manufacturer was doing some facility updates and was trying to decide between dairy tile, which he currently has in the plant, and a seamless floor topping. The owners choose the cementitious urethane floor topping because of the low maintenance and high durability. TMI Coatings began work just nine days after the brand [...]

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A car dealership hired TMI Coatings in May of 2007 to remove existing flooring material and install a new 1/8” thick chemical resistant epoxy flooring system. TMI proceeded to remove existing layers of flooring to ensure new flooring adhesion. TMI used our PrepMaster with five rotating diamond heads to remove the old thick-film existing flooring. [...]

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TMI Coatings was contacted by a manufacturing facility in the upper Midwest that produces parts for hydraulics. This facility is very oily and dirty. The company is working on lean manufacturing and contacted TMI to coat the ceilings and floors. The ceiling was very oily and dirty due to the machining process. TMI hand cleaned/solvent [...]

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A Wisconsin manufacturer of food products was having problems with water running out of rooms and forming puddles in the center of their Clean Room. This excess water developed into a potential slipping hazard for employees. TMI solved this problem by sloping floors toward existing drains making it easier to clean and drain efficiently. We [...]

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Meyers Printing, a promotional products printer located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, had a very old and unattractive floor in the production area of their print shop. The vinyl tiles were outdated, worn and ugly. TMI removed the tiles and installed an epoxy floor coating to improve the aesthetics, as well as make floor much easier to clean. [...]

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